The long-term financial viability of rugby league in Australia will be on the table in talks between the NRL, Nine and Foxtel over the next week, as sports administrators and broadcast partners look to rework the code so it does not find itself in a similar cash-strapped crisis in the future.

Nine chief executive Hugh Marks and ARL Commission chairman Peter V'Landys held crisis talks on Tuesday after a major schism developed between the sport and its free-to-air broadcaster, leading Nine to issue a stunning rebuke of the NRL last week, accusing it of mismanagement and wasting hundreds of millions of dollars.